Ron Paul’s book #1 on Amazon

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The Revolution: A Manifesto ($12) was officially released today, although it has been available from Amazon and at bookstores for a few weeks now. The rankings on it are nothing but phenomenal: #1 in all of Amazon, and 126 out of 128 reviews (98%) are five stars.
Lew Rockwell writes that the book will debut on [...]

Education: False Idol?

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I have yet to find a better exposure of the fallacy that education will solve all our problems.
Our system [of free popular instruction] was founded in all good faith that universal elementary education would make a citizenry more intelligent; whereas most obviously it has done nothing of the kind. The general level of intelligence in [...]

Arthur C. Clarke, RIP

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Via BoingBoing and CNet comes news that Arthur C. Clarke, sometime resident of Sri Lanka and author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the very strange novel that was turned into an ever stranger movie by that strange man Mr. Kubrick, has died at 90. He has given much to the science-fiction genre, and has no [...]

Chuck Norris’ fist lands on Penguin


Brought to my attention by a rather cool member on our forums, uber-tough-movie-boflex guy, Chuck Norris has sued book publisher, “Pengiun” last Friday after over a book he claims that “unfairly exploits his famous name.” What book you ask? Chuck Norris: 400 facts about the World’s Greatest Human. It had all sorts of false but [...]

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